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To the region that the era of strategic patience was over and we commenced the steps to dramatically increase not just the scope but the effectiveness of the sanctions. the department undertook a global campaign to bring partners and allies on board in every country around the world with every embassy and mission raising this to the highest levels and every meeting ive had throughout the year, this has been on the agenda to discuss. the adoption of the south asia strategy, the tool to compel the...

Enormous amounts of our national budget and given 2,000 american lives to the war, 20,000 wounded. and yet, our strategy is really a case of doing the same thing again and again. and expecting different results is. >> steve, the administration has made changes to rules of engagement. does that potentially bring progress to ending this quagmire? >> im afraid not. dropping more bombs is not going to change the facts on the ground. and we already know this because at the peak of our military commit...

Looking towards the russians or even the turks. paul: are we seeing the seeds being planted of israeli-iranian conflict over syria, parts of syria? >> i think you are. we are alienating the very people in syria and in iraq, the moderate sunnis, the kurds, the people who fought with us to eliminate the islamic state to say where are we supposed to go now. trump may proclaim that he has eliminated isis, he may give tehran that show it is seeds for much more conflict to come. paul: we cant commit m...

Even the turks. paul: are we seeing the seeds being planted of israeli-iranian conflict over syria, parts of syria? >> i think you are. we are alienating the very people in syria and in iraq, the moderate sunnis, the kurds, the people who fought with us to eliminate the islamic state to say where are we supposed to go now. trump may proclaim that he has eliminated isis, he may give tehran that show it is seeds for much more conflict to come. paul: we cant commit more forces, thatll be military c...

Need to perform certain aspects of this particular mission. and so i would want to know do they have the resources that they need. and, again, there are a lot of opticals and a lot of challenges dealing with dialect, dealing with ungoverned spaces. thats the other important piece of this, joy, is that the fact we need to be helping them from a military standpoint, but i would imagine that this particular part of niger that was close to mali that was probably ungoverned and that some of these isl...

>> i agree. folks say theyre going to push forward on this investigation. even richard burr was pretty upset about the way the firing took place. he was also upset, the senate intelligence community calling this a taxpayer-funded charade. he believes this is a serious investigation. so the things the president are saying may come back to counter. >> sean spicer should be coming back today. he was at the pentagon so he wasnt pushed out. he was doing his military commitment which we applaud him fo...

American forces returned home with just a token force remaining behind. but since then, a revitalized taliban and al qaeda have found safe havens in neighboring pakistan where theyve launched military and insurgency operations against the afghan government which is largely seen as corrupt and mired in tribal conflicts. the noted regional expert barnett ruben writes that the united states now faces three choices, american forces can leave afghanistan entirely. in all likelihood, the afghan govern...

Islamic states capital, same thing. the difference from what president obama was talking about is we have a dog in the fight. we have a significant military commitment to the mosul battle and an operations plan thats well thought through. its going slowly because people realize it will be intense fighting. dont rush it. the battle plan for raqqah from what i know is basically pretty solid. what was really painful listening to obama is he watched the suffering, watched the kids getting shot and t...

>> breaking overnight. british fighter jets launching their first air strikes against isis targets in syria. the air assault coming hours after lawmakers in britain voted in favor now of striking isis strongholds in syria. president obama welcomed the move. germanys parliament is expected to back chancellor angela merkel in a greater military commitment against isis. and an agency in crisis from t the house oversight department describing the secret service. it faults a failure of leadership a...

Advance its core strategic interests, which is to form an alliance with the iranians, with the syrian government, and to expand militarily in the region at the expense of the united states and its alliance system. this is something that isnt good for us and isnt good for people of the region. but on the margins, putin will do a few strikes against isis. but hes not the answer to the isis campaign. america has somewhere webetween0 and 100 times more military in the region. the difference is were ...